Enterprise Quotes - Page 34

• The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

  Herbert Hoover

  Government, Development, Affair

  Herbert Hoover, United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover) (1934). “The state papers and other public writings of Herbert Hoover”

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• Former brownfields, depressed urban areas, and hard-hit rural towns blossom as eco-industrial parks, green enterprise zones, and eco-villages. Farmers' markets, community co-ops, and mobile markets get fresh, organic produce to the people who can't afford to shop at health-food stores.

  Van Jones

  People, Community, Climate

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Influence, Patronage, Bigs

  Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.4, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Atheist, Promise, Littles

  "Lectures: Including His Letters on The Chinese God. Is Suicide a Sin? The Right to One's Life. Etc., Etc., Etc".

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• I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and their communities.

  Jack Welch

  Strong, Believe, Responsibility

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hate, Men, Russia

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• Nobody talks more of free enterprise and competition and of the best man winning than the man who inherited his father's store or farm.

  C. Wright Mills

  Business, Father, Winning

  C. Wright Mills (2002). “White Collar: The American Middle Classes”, p.36, Oxford University Press

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• Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Practice, Organization

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• Thoughtfully assessing and addressing enterprise risk and placing a high value on corporate transparency can protect the one thing we cannot afford to lose: trust.

  Dale E. Jones

  Risk, Management, Transparency

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• Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Military, Order, Suffering

  1991 Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress, 16 May.

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• Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

  Jane Rule

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Understanding

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.193, Open Road Media

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• The strongest argument for free enterprise is that it prevents anybody from having too much power. Whether that person is a government official, a trade union official, or a business executive. If forces them to put up or shut up. They either have to deliver the goods, produce something that people are willing to pay for, are willing to buy, or else they have to go into a different business.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, People, Different

  "The Tyranny of Control". PBS "Free to Choose", episode 2, 1980.

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• Business corporations in general are not defenders of free enterprise. On the contrary, they are one of the
  chief sources of danger....Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. We have to have that tariff to protect us against competition from abroad. We have to have that special provision in the tax code. We have to have that subsidy.

  Milton Friedman

  Competition, Special, Different

  "Defaming Milton Friedman" by Johan Norberg, reason.com. October 2008.

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• Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Jobs, Serious

  1936 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.

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• It is a mistake to think that one limits one’s risk by spreading too much between enterprises about which one knows little and has no reason for special confidence.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mistake, Thinking, Risk

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• Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin "helping' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.

  Gerda Lerner

  Men, Doe, World

  "Why Women’s History Month" by Ruth Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 11, 2014.

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• Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

  Peter Drucker

  Justified, Be Good, Free Enterprise

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.29, Routledge

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• If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

  Lou Gerstner

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• I view the end of the geographical feat as the beginning of the missionary enterprise.

  David Livingstone

  Missionary, Exploration, Ends

  "David Livingstone: Missionary to Africa".

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• The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

  Jeff Bezos

  Past, Matter, Glorify

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• I guess what I want to say to us artists and entrepreneurs is that conventional yardsticks of success don't apply to all enterprises. Labors of love count.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Entrepreneur, Want

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• A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing

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• All corporatism - even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea - encourages inflexibility, discourages individual accountability, and risks magnifying errors by concealing them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Hard Work, Errors, Korea

  "Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World". Book by Margaret Thatcher, April 16, 2002.

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• The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Philosophical, Fall

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.279, Princeton University Press

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• All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

  Jesse Helms

  Religious, Men, Knows

  Jesse Helms (1984). “"A Lot of Human Beings Have Been Born Bums": 20 Years of the Words of Senator No”, Carolina Indepnt Publication Corporation

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